The green transition and climate crisis are creating urgent market needs that no single actor can solve alone. This kind of collaboration takes place locations that offer a community, mission-driven infrastructure, and a clear purpose.
That’s exactly what Green Line delivers, with Crazy Town EriCa at its core in Espoo, Finland.
Entire ecosystem within a 30-minute metro ride
Anchored along the Helsinki–Espoo metro line, “Green Line” unites green chemistry, circular economy, and clean tech players under one brand. It brings together research, startups, corporates, and public actors to drive transformative change.
These include actors such as Europe’s largest open access bioeconomy piloting center VTT Bioruukki and Finland’s leading innovation university Aalto University with sustainability at its core. Otaniemi campus is the birthplace of the Finnish startup movement, where student-led players such as Startup Sauna, Aaltoes and MIMIR help create 100 new startups each year. Globally-ranked startup accelerators such as VTT LaunchPad and Aalto Startup Center take teams to market. Along the metro line one can find corporations such as Kemira, Metsä, Fortum, Metso, Huhtamäki and Neste that drive industry-led R&D and commercialize solutions to global markets. A total of 1500 technology companies and over 50% of Helsinki stock exchange can be found from Espoo.
This creates one of the most concentrated and accessible sustainability innovation corridors in Europe. Whether you’re an R&D powerhouse, a startup, or an impact investor, Green Line connects you to key players in Finland’s innovation system. Like a metro line, it brings people and ideas closer together, from labs to markets, from students to CEOs.
Northern Europe’s deep tech heart
Espoo is Europe’s top locations for deep tech and sustainability-focused entrepreneurship.
– Finland’s deep tech epicenter: 32% of all VC investments go to deep tech startups
– One of the world’s most sustainable cities
– Access to top talent: From vocational training to PhDs, Green Line offers reskilling and upskilling opportunities through Omnia, Metropolia, University of Helsinki and Aalto University
– Global reach: Slush, Arctic15, NORDEEP — the most impactful startup and investor events in the Nordics happen in Espoo and Helsinki region
EriCa Green Chemistry Park – the new hub along the Green Line
Professional communities are places where innovations happen. They connect individuals with shared interests and foster collaboration. This social capital — the connections, networks, and trust between people — is the currency of the future. It enables access to human capital, including skills, knowledge, and ideas. In turn, these can be transformed into ventures, projects, and funding.
This is what we are enabling at EriCa Green Chemistry Park, a new hub opening in late 2025. As a cornerstone of Green Line’s physical infrastructure, EriCa is located in Finnoo, right by the metro. EriCa offers:
– Coworking space, private offices and shared plug-in-ready laboratories at Crazy Town EriCa
– Private R&D spaces for startups, scaleups, and corporations
– R&D collaboration opportunities with Green Line players
EriCa is designed to be agile and open. Its labs-as-a-service model lowers the barrier for startups to test, pilot, and iterate — accelerating time-to-impact and de-risking innovation.
EriCa fills a critical gap in the green innovation pipeline. It gives emerging players access to the same high-quality infrastructure usually reserved for large corporations. Crazy Town, the operator of EriCa Green Chemistry Park has been working with community-building for 20 years and is responsible for building the community around EriCa.
Scale your business faster at Green Line with help of Crazy Town EriCa
Being part of the larger ecosystem in Green Line at locally at EriCa helps all players to find an answer to the shared challenge facing new innovations, companies and innovators – How to attract talent, customers, and investment?
As part of the Green Line ecosystem, EriCa offers easy access to startup programs, international soft landing support, and networking events that connect you with investors, companies, and public sector leaders working on the green transition.
Whether you’re growing a startup or developing new green chemistry solutions, EriCa and Green Line give you the people, tools, and spaces to turn ideas into impact.
If you are a company interested in memberships at Crazy Town EriCa, get touch with Hele Kaunismäki: hele.kaunismaki@crazytown.fi, +358 50 559 0374
